Rengar with Shen
How to Synergize Rengar and Shen
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Rengar Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rengar and Shen
Tips for Playing as Rengar with Shen
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Rengar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Rengar in LoL
The Rengar Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rengar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Rengar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rengar plays on the same team as Shen, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rengar is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Rengar plays with Shen on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Rengar during teamfights.
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Is Rengar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal ally for Rengar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Shen is a relatively poor companion for Rengar. By being on the same team as Rengar, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Rengar and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Rengar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Rengar and Shen together, you may not be giving your side very much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rengar in order to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Rengar and Shen synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Rengar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Rengar had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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